A Novelist Is A Person Who Lives

I Am Telling You What I Know—words Have Music And If You Are A Musician You Will Write To Hear Them.

What We Call Fiction Is The Ancient Way Of Knowing, The Total Discourse That Antedates All The Special Vocabularies....fiction Is Democratic, It Reasserts The Authority Of The Single Mind To Make And Remake The World.

If You Feel A Bump On Page One Hundred, It May Be You Went Off On Page Fifty.

We Are All Good Friends. Friendship Is What Endures. Shared Ideals, Respect For The Whole Character Of A Human Being.

I've Known Several Cases Of Writers Who Decide To Write About Something And They Research The Hell Out Of It And When They're Ready To Write, They Can't Move Because They Are So Burdened. I Start Writing. Whatever I Need Somehow Comes To Hand.